Recently I got a postcard in the mail offering services to help you "Sell your home faster!"  And it struck me as very ve...

        In honor of our family vacation across the border to Canada (and yes, we remembered our passports this time!) I thought it would ...

        Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (1803-1847), known by his pseudonym J.J. Grandville, was a French caricaturist who first became famous...

        The classical chimera, with its three random heads poking out of random places, has always seemed to me a most unconvincing beast...

     Can Block Printing Save the Earth?         I'm faking you out here - this isn't another post about speculative fiction. ...

     Heroism Is Contagious        I recently read about a couple of social psychology studies that left me feeling pretty I-told-you-...

     Inspired Inventions         Last post I mentioned Neal Stephenson's claim that it's the job of speculative fiction writ...

    Less Dystopia, Please         I've said it before and I'll say it again: one of the roles I think speculative fiction can...

        Three or four years ago the art world rediscovered Jan Lievens.  Lievens was a contemporary of Rembrandt, born in the same town o...